It seems like there’s a new closeted athlete blogging every month, and March is no different. Meet Jon, a high school freshman in the Pacific Northwest, who calls himself the Rainbow Runner. He started posting February 20 and has already logged about a dozen posts. Only one person knows he’s gay, his best friend Kevin.
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Closeted high school runner’s blog
Gay cheerleader faces discrimination
A gay, mentally challenged, biracial high school student in Eastern Washington, Benjamin Grundy, is being told he cannot perform all of the routines with the girls on the squad. Instead, he’s only allowed to stand there waving his arms. Ben’s mom wrong a very long letter to the Seattle Weekly outlining all of the issues. [...]
Amazing story of trans former high school QB
Details magazine has a fantastic story about a former high school quarterback who is now a lesbian filmmaker. Kimberly Reed was Paul McKerrow in high school: Starting quarterback and valedictorian in Helena, Montana.
Beneath the surface of Paul’s seemingly placid Rocky Mountain life was the feeling that, though he was attracted to girls, he wasn’t anything [...]
Girl sues softball coach, deserves lifetime ban
While some people are talking about suspending Tiger Woods from golf (insane, but true), I have someone I’d like to ban from sports forever. Alina Cerda is a 15-year-old girl who broke her ankle sliding into a base during some softball drills this year. She’s now suing the City of New York and her coach [...]
Closeted teen hockey player’s terrific blog
One of the best things about the Internet for gay people is the ability to reach out and connect, especially for young people still in the closet. A new blog, a gay hockey kids life, fits this mold well and is my favorite new blog. I urge people to check it out.
Mikey, the blog’s creator, [...]
Behind-the-back pass
What’s the worst slap in the face you’ve seen in a high school football game? Mine is now the behind-the-back 2-point conversion pass that took place in Baton Rouge a couple weeks ago. What was the coach thinking? Up 13-0 (en route to 58-0), why is the coach letting these kids go for 2…and throwing [...]
Is holding hands ‘hazing’ in football?
What do high school football parents, players and administrators think of gay people? Exhibit No. 692 comes to us from Gateway High School in Aurora, Colo. It seems two players got into a little shoving match at practice recently. As penance, the coach made them run a lap holding hands. Cute, right? They weren’t getting [...]
Worst way to lose a football game ever
This might be the most excruciating way to possibly lose a football game. I can’t think of a worse one I’ve ever seen, though the commentators said something about an Iowa-Northern Iowa game. To make the play of the year and then to forget one crucial detail…I feel so bad for the white team and [...]
Cheerleaders in trouble for Jesus banners
A Chattanooga, Tenn., area cheerleading team has been ordered to stop printing Bible verses and religious messages on banners at school football games. Since 2003, the Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School team has displayed messages like “Commit to the Lord” and the banner to the right featuring a passage from the Book of Phillippians in the [...]
Team DC’s 2009 scholarship winner
Washington DC’s gay Metro Weekly had a nice article last week about the recipient of Team DC’s 2009 student-athlete scholarship. In its second year, the scholarship goes to a self-identified gay athlete. This year’s winner was swimmer and tennis player Clayton Miller (right, with one of last year’s winners Michael Hull) from Wakefield High School. [...]
‘Bruno’ bonds with high school football team
Los Angeles Unified School District officials are upset, the L.A. Times reports, that members of the Birmingham High football team participated in a photo shoot with “Bruno,” the flamboyantly gay character played by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. (Some photos below).
A slide show on the GQ website shows Cohen cavorting with the uniformed players while wearing [...]
Quick hits: Tiger, Lakers, Nadal, Pacman
After two months of “Tiger Woods is finished” talk, Woods comes back from 4 shots down to win the Memorial. Welcome to two weeks of “Tiger Woods is immortal” talk. Soon to be followed by “Tiger Woods is finished” talk.
L.A. Lakers win NBA championship.
Nadal’s coach claims the defending champ is doubtful for Wimbledon. Really??
Is Jerry [...]
A lesbian coach, her firing and sheep feces
A Maine jury will have to decide whether a high school softball coach was fired because she is a lesbian or because she made her team walk through sheep feces as part of a hazing ritual. A Maine court said this week that a jury would have to decide why Kelly Jo Cookson was not [...]
Gay football novel wins Lambda Lit Award
Congratulations to lontime Outsports friend Bill Konigsberg, who won a Lambda Literary Award last night for his book about a gay high school football player, Out of the Pocket. The award was for LGBT Children’s/Young Adult. Bill’s been on the forefront of gay visibility in the sports media since he came out at ESPN in [...]
Gay high school swimmer’s lust for teammate
Thanks to a reader for this head’s-up of an entertaining call on a Podcast (Episode 136) by Dan Savage (“Savage Love”).
The caller: A self-described totally out high school swimmer and water polo player in California. His whole team knows he’s gay and has no problem with it.
The problem: He has no boyfriend and his hormones [...]
